AWS X-Ray vs AppDynamics Database Monitoring comparison

AppDynamics and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. AppDynamics is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.6, while Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.0. AppDynamics holds a 0.3% mindshare in APM, compared to Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of AppDynamics users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

AppDynamics Database Monitoring and AWS X-Ray compete in the application performance monitoring category. Users are happier with the pricing and support of AppDynamics Database Monitoring, while AWS X-Ray is seen as having superior features.

Features: AppDynamics Database Monitoring is appreciated for its in-depth database performance insights, real-time monitoring capabilities, and powerful analytics. AWS X-Ray is valued for its end-to-end distributed tracing, seamless integration with AWS services, and visibility into application performance.

Room for Improvement: AppDynamics Database Monitoring could benefit from improved scalability, a more intuitive setup process, and enhanced alerts and notifications. AWS X-Ray needs better support for non-AWS environments, more detailed documentation, and advanced analytics capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AppDynamics Database Monitoring users report a steep learning curve during deployment but praise its detailed guidance and responsive customer support. AWS X-Ray users find deployment straightforward due to seamless AWS integration, although support quality appears mixed based on user reviews.

Pricing and ROI: AppDynamics Database Monitoring has reasonable setup costs and a solid ROI due to its in-depth insights. AWS X-Ray is cost-effective for AWS-centric applications with a pay-as-you-go pricing model, but some users find it challenging to justify ROI for smaller applications.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics Database Monito...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

AWS X-Ray

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

17th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AppDynamics Database Monitoring is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS X-Ray is 3.9%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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Nuno Rosa

Principal Consultant at Infosys

Has an easy initial setup process and has valuable database performance monitoring features

In one of the scenarios, a retail company encountered transaction failure issues. The problem was not with the card or payment system but the database operations. By utilizing AppDynamics, the team traced end-to-end transactions and identified a database latency problem. Monitoring the entire end-to-end system allows us to pinpoint performance issues in the database. Tracking the user journey helped us identify the issues between the middleware and the database. The topology view feature helps in effective monitoring. However, this feature was developed six years ago and still needs to be updated. The application needs broader improvements and reshaping for this particular area. Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases. During development, it integrates seamlessly with the SDLC. It detects and resolves performance issues, ensuring database availability and minimizing downtime. I rate it an eight out of ten.

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Parth Solanki

Founder & CEO at Quicklead.io

Saves time, is relatively cheap, and helps find errors

If we get any error, we can go to X-Ray and get all the requests for a certain error in one place. It makes it easy to find the issue in your own product. You can look at logs and error logs and find loopholes. You can do direct queries to get specific requests over the course of a day. It's very good at error reporting and quite fast. You also get a lot of information, including IP addresses, user locations, et cetera.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Knowing which tables on the database were working the most was valuable. It helped the client understand where they need to focus. They streamlined a lot of their queries and brought the resource usage down. It helped them to find long-running queries. They rewrote them completely so that they don't take as long and the application performs better."

"The proactive monitoring from AppDynamics definitely helps."

"To be honest, it's a fantastic product."

"The most valuable feature in this solution, for our business, is the clear way of projecting the connections between the database and the traffic inflow. This is very helpful when troubleshooting issues."

"The ability to identify the top running queries has been extremely valuable for us."

"The dashboards are very well-defined."

"AppDynamics is scalable. They can monitor billions of transactions because they're not monitoring all transactions. They're monitoring samples. So, they can offer good monitoring for the huge sites."

"What I found valuable in AppDynamics Database Monitoring is good technical support. I also like that it's scalable and stable."

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"AWS X-RAY identifies bottlenecks in terms of stability and performance and how long certain data lives in terms of response time and duration."

"The most important one is compliance. We're able to achieve our regulatory levels. We're able to achieve the security level that we need for the federal government."

"It is a very scalable solution."

"The most beneficial feature is that it shows a dashboard for performance intervals, which reveals latencies."

"The most promising feature of AWS X-Ray is that you can debug the issues through the proper logs. You can also get an analysis out of the logs for some use cases, though I have yet to try all the features of AWS X-Ray."

"The error analysis capabilities of X-Ray are really good."

"The solution has made it easier for us to trace the problems that we have with our requests and to monitor the timing of each step in each request we do in our endpoints."

"AWS X-Ray is a strong solution and has a smooth integration process."

Cons

"The limitations are often due to the vendors not supplying all the profiling features to AppDynamics."

"An improvement could be if the monitoring was able to be summarized into something more clear and simple for people who don't have the technical skills on the database side."

"The application monitoring needs improvement. It needs to be easier for someone who isn't a proficient developer."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be improved with more support for microservices architecture."

"The major concern lies with reports, specifically their configurability. It's like, if I want to combine multiple reports and generate them all at once, that's not possible. Even though there's a setup for generating 25 reports, I wanted to group them all and generate them in one go, which isn't currently feasible. I have to manually run each report and set the time for it."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be a better product if it could support new technology, such as cloud technology. Even Dynatrace lacks support for newer technologies."

"Based on the user experience feedback that we have had, I think that the most important thing to improve is the availability of the SaaS, the cloud environment."

"The tool is expensive."

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"What needs to be better in AWS X-Ray is the log filtering. Predefined filters could be helpful because the power of analytics comes from how you can filter the data. I also want to see more KPIs from AWS X-Ray."

"A significant downside is that it is very expensive."

"I do not have any notes in terms of improvements."

"It should have X-Ray SDKs for different languages like Node.js, Python, or Java."

"They can improve how traces are sent to other providers."

"If you have a small team, it's probably overkill."

"The user interface is sometimes kind of confusing to understand. It's not very user-friendly."

"Like most Amazon products, the user interface, configuration, and tuning aren't the easiest. That's the biggest reason why people tend to go to products like TerraForm and Terragrunt. We use TerraForm and Terragrunt. So, for setting things up and interacting with X-Ray, it's definitely the user interface that can be better."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If one is expensive and ten is low price, I rate the product price as seven out of ten."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring is expensive. I rate it a seven to eight out of ten."

"The licensing scheme is very complex. They need to make it easier."

"We have a license-based solution. That means you need a license for each server you monitor."

"AppDynamics offers a yearly basis license."

"I give the price a five out of ten."

"There is an annual cost for the use of this solution."

"We have purchased a few licenses for AppDynamics Database Monitoring and the price is high."

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"As you develop a relationship with Amazon, your pricing gets lower. You get credits for the amount of the system you use, and then if you're the government, you can get government pricing. For commercial users, there's a hump when you go from small to medium to big enterprise. Small businesses can live pretty easily off the free tier in a lot of cases, but when you go from a medium to a big enterprise, it becomes more expensive on a per-user basis. I'd like to see that curve going in a different way where pricing can be driven down while people are trying to adopt the technology."

"The pricing for AWS X-Ray is a six out of ten."

"The solution is a bit expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

39%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

10%

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

The price is not cheap, however, considering the benefits and the price ratio, I would rate it nine out of ten.

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What needs improvement with AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Based on my experience, some databases like Couchbase, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB require a little bit of enhancement as they are newer and not as widely used as other databases. The limitations are o...

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What do you like most about AWS X-Ray?

AWS X-Ray is a strong solution and has a smooth integration process.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS X-Ray?

AWS X-Ray is very beneficial, however, it is expensive. It should be more cost-effective.

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What needs improvement with AWS X-Ray?

It should have X-Ray SDKs for different languages like Node.js, Python, or Java. It should also have custom annotations and better instruments for external API services. In addition to these, X-Ray...

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Overview

More than half of application performance bottlenecks originate in the database, but most application teams have little or no visibility into database performance. With AppDynamics' database performance management product, you get 100% visibility into application performance, from the browser to the database.

Key Benefits

Visualize end-to-end application performance, from the browser to the database
Get alerts when database thresholds are violated
Monitor key performance metrics like top users, programs, SQL, objects and more.
See execution plans for slow SQL to isolate performance bottlenecks

AWS X-Ray is a powerful debugging and performance analysis tool offered by Amazon Web Services. It allows developers to trace requests made to their applications and identify bottlenecks and issues.

With X-Ray, developers can visualize the entire request flow and pinpoint the exact location where errors occur. It provides detailed insights into the performance of individual components and helps optimize the overall application performance.

X-Ray integrates seamlessly with other AWS services, making it easy to trace requests across different services and identify dependencies. It also offers a comprehensive set of APIs and SDKs, enabling developers to instrument their applications and capture valuable data for analysis. With its user-friendly interface and powerful features, AWS X-Ray is a valuable tool for developers looking to improve the performance and reliability of their applications.

Sample Customers

Sony, DirecTV, UBS, The Container Store, The Neta Porter Group, Nasdaq, Cisco, eHarmony, Hallmark, Overstock, Expedia

COMCAST, ConnectWise, skyscanner, AirAsia, cookpad, cimpress, VTEX, zowdow

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